Designing Community

by David Walters

Book Overview

Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities.

In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. Despite the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075066925X
• ISBN13: 9780750669252
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.6"